Sizing, optimization, control and energy management of hybrid renewable energy system—A review

Abstract

To meet fast growing in energy demand, all energy sources have to be exploited. Renewables energies are unlimited and clean but the most problem with them is their intermittent aspect. To overcome this problem a mixture of several energy sources is made to obtain what called hybrid renewable energy system. This paper aims at presenting and analyzing a deep literature review of the recent paper published in hybrid renewable energy field. This review focuses on four essential categories of hybrid renewable energy system which is sizing (using software or using traditional methods), optimization (classical, artificial and hybrid methods), control (centralized, distributed and hybrid control) and energy management (technical objective, economic objective and techno-economic objective). Furthermore, this paper compares between different methods used in each category.

Keywords

• Renewable energy
• Sizing
• Optimization
• Control
• Energy management